Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

Just thought I would post my results using the GBC-Creative
laminator - A4. This may be some benefit to the Australian readers

This is a cheap and cheerfull laminator I purchased for $65 Australia
Dollars in Officeworks. It has no speed/temp control but will accept
media up to 2mm in thickness.

Using the toner-transfer with magazine paper I have achieved
acceptable results passing the paper/toner/PCB material through 6-8
times.

Upon soaking and removing the paper the toner seems to bond well to
the copper foil.

The laminator has metal exit guides that may prove some trouble
catching the taped leading edge of the magazine paper as it goes
though the laminator. However I found that if I folded the magazine
paper in half and placed the PCM material along the fold of the paper
so there were no paper edges on the leading side of the stack then it
all seemed to work fine.

I am very impressed with the results as I had almost all but give up
on the Toner transer method with the clothes iron.


I wonder if this violates the first line in there instruction
manual. "Do not used of any other purpose that intended"??

Cheers,
David